The purpose of categories must be to create a fair and even race for the riders in any given event.
Even though the new Cat enforcement system certianly is a step in the right directions, it still has a tendency to be pushing riders into higher Categoires mainly based on their longer efforts, even though the 4-6 min power (zMax) is now also being considered.
But in fact most races are actually won by riders with high power values for the ultra short durations eg. 15 sec / 1 min power. this is not addressed at all with the Cat enforcement based categories.
Here is a suggetion for alterntive Racing Categories, which could be purely based on race ranking instead. Eg.split into 8 classes, Riders could be allowed to race in the category which the riders race ranking suggest and 1 category up.something like :
A+: Top 1.000 riders
A : Top 2.000 riders
B+: Top 5.000 riders
B : Top 10.000 riders
C+: Top 20.000 riders
C : Top 50.000 riders
D+: Top 100.000 riders
D : all others
Another suggestion could be to base categories on historical (eg 60 days) normalised power NP instead, pretty much excactly what FRR (Flame Rouge Racing) as race organizer have done to put riders into fair and even categories for their races. FRR´s approach to make racing categories is IMO much better than both the old 20 min based categories and new Cat. enforcment race rankings.
RIDE ON